The second of my 'original (although not entirely)' sculptures. This one is based on Blastoise - only a much more upset version. I call him 'Jet'.
Sculpted in Monster Clay, cast in Easy-flo 120 polyurethane resin. Painted with Tamiya acrylic. One of them had been cold cast in brass powder (more on that below) and given a couple of washes of browns and touches of green to give it an aged look.
Sculpting
Moulding and Casting
A one-part brush on mold was made for this piece - as sculpting with detachable arms and fairly stubby legs leaves me with no undercuts significant enough to warrant a full two part mold set up. I pour an slush cast the resin in from the bottom of the mold where the feet meet the base.
A two part plaster bandage jacket is applied to keep the mold together as I rotate it during slush casting.
For one specific cast I poured some Brass metal power into the silicon molds. The powder sticks to the silicone and coats the entire with a fine film - afterwards resin is poured in as normal. The resulting casts are quite cool...
With a bit of steel wool you can really buff out that real metal shine - much more convincing than simply spraying with a metallic acrylic paint!
I tried to get an uneven weathering to the MDF base too. This was sanded smooth (as cut MDF is rather fluffy) and given a couple of coats of filler primer. Then I applied the tried and true 'Hairspray' technique for flaky paint - only this time I followed with a blast of metallic gold acrylic immediately after soaking the board with hairspray. What resulted was an interesting finish....
Finished Figure
